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  • A cuckoo search optimization-based forward consecutive mean excision model for threshold adaptation in cognitive radio 
    Abdullahi, H.; Onumanyi, A.J. (Adeiza); Zubair, S.; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan Mohammed; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Springer, 2020-07)
    The forward consecutive mean excision (FCME) algorithm is one of the most effective adaptive threshold estimation algorithms presently deployed for threshold adaptation in cognitive radio (CR) systems. However, its ...
  • Cue estimation for vowel perception prediction in low signal-to-noise ratios 
    Burmeister, Brian (University of Pretoria, 2009-05-15)
    This study investigates the signal processing required in order to allow for the evaluation of hearing perception prediction models at low signal-to-noise Ratios (SNR). It focusses on speech enhancement and the estimation ...
  • Cultivating and assessing information security culture 
    Da Veiga, Adele (University of Pretoria, 2009-04-24)
    The manner in which employees perceive and interact (behave) with controls implemented to protect information assets is one of the main threats to the protection of such assets and the effective use of information security ...
  • Cultivating new meaning in the urban landscape : increasing food security and social capital through urban ecology 
    Breetzke, Dominique Rossi; Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Landscape architecture is a design discipline and a form of art. It is an art which grows, transforms, dies and revives itself in engagement with the physical world. It needs, as a design discipline, to engage with these ...
  • Cultivating the city - a multifunctional landscape along the Walker Spruit, Pretoria 
    Rossi, Dominique Gina (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    The purpose of this dissertation was to explore how a landscape architect may help to address environmental decay and the threat of food scarcity that are the results of rapid urban growth. For this urban renewal scheme, ...
  • Cultural and social issues in housing theory and education : essay on dwelling experiences 
    Pecar, Marina; IAHS World Congress on Housing (33rd : 2005 : Pretoria, South Africa) (IAHS, 2005-09)
    Paper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria.
  • Cultural artefacts as places of political contestation : radical democracy, discursive ‘groundlessness’ and The Name of the Rose 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article, taking as its point of departure the validity of Laclau and Mouffe’s perspectives on radical democracy, focuses, in particular, on whether or not neo-Marxist cultural criticism could, conceivably, have recourse ...
  • Cultural aspects of housing : a case of the Luo in Kisumu Town, Kenya 
    Achieng’ Abonyo, Dorothy; IAHS World Congress on Housing (33rd : 2005 : Pretoria, South Africa) (IAHS, 2005-09)
    Paper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria.
  • The cultural context of contemporary graphic design 
    Economou, Inge (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    Graphic design in the contemporary era (postmodernity) seems to be in a state of diversity and pluralism as designers produce work without any unifying stylistic or theoretical principles. Although designers frequently ...
  • Cultural hybridity in the teaching of architecture within a decolonised society 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Lange, Mary E.; Nkambule, Mbongiseni Emmanuel Nathi (Universidade de Brasília, 2017)
    Descolonizar o ensino-aprendizagem em Arquitetura requer questionar o que é pertinente a uma sociedade multiracial, multicultural e multi-liguistica e ao mesmo tempo adequado a uma disciplina internacionalista. Examinamos ...
  • Cultural landscapes as a catalyst for social development : a case for Westfort Village, Pretoria 
    Mollel, Lotang'amwaki Victor (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    Westfort Village, in Pretoria West, is a previous leprosy institution isolated from the rest of Pretoria, soon to be consumed in the urban fabric of a developing Pretoria West. The Westfort Leprosy Institution has since ...
  • Cultural landscapes as a model for natural and human systems integration 
    Grunewald, Tosca Dina; Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Cultural landscapes are dynamic systems and expressions of the interaction between the industrial and cultural activities of societies with the physical world. Historic societies that developed independently from fossil ...
  • Cultural nostalgia: a commemoration of Marabi 
    Matshaya, Inam Zanokuhle (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Over the years architecture has played an integral role in the commemoration of past people, cultures and events. It has been used as a medium of memory making whether in the form of memorials, monuments and museums to ...
  • The culture and skills challenges associated with servitization : a South African perspective 
    Weeks, R.V. (Richard Vernon) (Journal of Contemporary Management, 2010)
    The boundaries between the manufacturing of products and the provision of service are increasingly breaking down and becoming blurred as institutions implement servitization strategies. It is suggested that there are, however, ...
  • A cumulative risk and sustainability index for pavements 
    Blaauw, Sheldon Alfred; Maina, J.W. (James); Grobler, Louis J.; Visser, Alex T. (Elsevier, 2022-04)
    Pavement sustainability is measured using various methodologies which often focus on only certain aspects of sustainability. Methods to quantify and unify holistic sustainability in terms of economic, environmental and ...
  • Cupboard 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968) (2008-10-31)
    Photograph depicting a cupboard with ball-and-claw feet, and doors with fielded panels and shaped tops. It has quite an elaborate cornice with carved key block, and linenfold drawers. An unusual feature is the apron moulding ...
  • Cupboard 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-11-03)
    Photograph depicting a cabinet on stand type cupboard with a gabled pediment from Groote Schuur, probably from the third quarter of the 18th century. The lower part has one drawer with a partial linenfold pattern. The ...
  • Cupboard, Groote Schuur 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-10-23)
    Photograph depicting a cupboard of the cabinet on stand type, housed at Groote Schuur. Its base has cabriole legs, an ornate apron and curved, crossed stretchers. It has one drawer and quite a heavy cornice. For similar ...
  • Curator's house, Burgers Park, Jacob Mare Street, Central Pretoria, South Africa 
    Meiring, Hannes (2013-09-03)
    Short newspaper article in Afrikaans about the curator's house in Burgers Park. The house was built in 1904.
  • Curing rates of emulsion-treated kalahari sand bases 
    Netterberg, F. (Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
    The curing rates of ten full-scale experimental road base sections of nonplastic, grey-white and red Kalahari sands treated with 2,5, 5,0 and 6,5% of SS 60 emulsion without added cement or inert filler were monitored by ...